There's absolutely no need to extend the lifetime of cell to post removal of the driver. It's only used in this function. Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev --- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c index 5c5bd5ef7175..38c5f5f95433 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c @@ -1981,13 +1981,14 @@ static int ath10k_download_cal_nvmem(struct ath10k *ar, const char *cell_name) size_t len; int ret; - cell = devm_nvmem_cell_get(ar->dev, cell_name); + cell = nvmem_cell_get(ar->dev, cell_name); if (IS_ERR(cell)) { ret = PTR_ERR(cell); return ret; } buf = nvmem_cell_read(cell, &len); + nvmem_cell_put(cell); if (IS_ERR(buf)) return PTR_ERR(buf); -- 2.53.0